Virus–host interactions and their roles in coral reef health and disease

Functional conservation of the apoptotic machinery from coral to man: the diverse and complex Bcl-2 and caspase repertoires of Acropora millepora

(2016) Aurelie Moya et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Phosphorus metabolism of reef organisms with algal symbionts

(2016) Christine Ferrier-Pagès et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Dimethylated sulfur compounds in coral-reef ecosystems

(2016) Elisabeth Deschaseaux et al.   Environmental Chemistry

Correlation detection strategies in microbial data sets vary widely in sensitivity and precision

(2016) Sophie Weiss et al.   ISME Journal

Dilution reveals how viral lysis and grazing shape microbial communities

(2016) Jacob A. Cram et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Lytic to temperate switching of viral communities

(2016) B. Knowles et al.   NATURE

Energetic differences between bacterioplankton trophic groups and coral reef resistance

(2016) Tracey McDole Somera et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Near-island biological hotspots in barren ocean basins

(2016) Jamison M. Gove et al.   Nature Communications

Overfishing and nutrient pollution interact with temperature to disrupt coral reefs down to microbial scales

(2016) Jesse R. Zaneveld et al.   Nature Communications

Re-examination of the relationship between marine virus and microbial cell abundances

(2016) Charles H. Wigington et al.   Nature Microbiology

To kill or not to kill: The balance between lytic and lysogenic viral infection is driven by trophic status

(2016) Jérôme P. Payet et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Coral Mucus Is a Hot Spot for Viral Infections

(2015) Hanh Nguyen-Kim et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Influence of local environmental variables on the viral consortia associated with the coral Montipora capitata from Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, USA

(2015) SA Lawrence et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Metagenomic characterization of viral communities in corals: mining biological signal from methodological noise

(2015) Elisha M. Wood-Charlson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Gene Networks in the Wild: Identifying Transcriptional Modules that Mediate Coral Resistance to Experimental Heat Stress

(2015) Noah H. Rose et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

A multitrophic model to quantify the effects of marine viruses on microbial food webs and ecosystem processes

(2015) Joshua S Weitz et al.   ISME Journal

Community structures of actively growing bacteria stimulated by coral mucus

(2015) Akito Taniguchi et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Counts and sequences, observations that continue to change our understanding of viruses in nature

(2015) K. Eri Wommack et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Predicting climate-driven regime shifts versus rebound potential in coral reefs

(2015) Nicholas A. J. Graham et al.   NATURE

Marine microbial community dynamics and their ecological interpretation

(2015) Jed A. Fuhrman et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Patterns and ecological drivers of ocean viral communities

(2015) J. R. Brum et al.   SCIENCE

Nitrogen cycling in corals: the key to understanding holobiont functioning?

(2015) Nils Rädecker et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

From cholera to corals: Viruses as drivers of virulence in a major coral bacterial pathogen

(2015) Karen D. Weynberg et al.   Scientific Reports

Biogeography of Viruses in the Sea

(2015) Cheryl-Emiliane T. Chow et al.   Annual Review of Virology

Using Signature Genes as Tools To Assess Environmental Viral Ecology and Diversity

(2014) Evelien M. Adriaenssens et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Quantification of virus-like particles suggests viral infection in corals affected by Porites tissue loss

(2014) Scott A. Lawrence et al.   CORAL REEFS

Porites white patch syndrome: associated viruses and disease physiology

(2014) S. A. Lawrence et al.   CORAL REEFS

Phage-bacteria network analysis and its implication for the understanding of coral disease

(2014) Nitzan Soffer et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Latent virus-like infections are present in a diverse range ofSymbiodiniumspp. (Dinophyta)

(2014) Scott A. Lawrence et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Abundance and morphology of virus-like particles associated with the coral Acropora hyacinthus differ between healthy and white syndrome-infected states

(2014) FJ Pollock et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Onset and establishment of diazotrophs and other bacterial associates in the early life history stages of the coralAcropora millepora

(2014) Kimberley A. Lema et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Ribonucleotide reductases reveal novel viral diversity and predict biological and ecological features of unknown marine viruses

(2014) E. G. Sakowski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Local genomic adaptation of coral reef-associated microbiomes to gradients of natural variability and anthropogenic stressors

(2014) L. W. Kelly et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

High occurrence of viruses in the mucus layer of scleractinian corals

(2014) Hanh Nguyen-Kim et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

The Characterization of RNA Viruses in Tropical Seawater Using Targeted PCR and Metagenomics

(2014) A. I. Culley et al.   mBio

Generating viral metagenomes from the coral holobiont

(2014) Karen D. Weynberg et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Diazotrophic diversity in the Caribbean coral, Montastraea cavernosa

(2013) Nathan D. Olson et al.   ARCHIVES OF MICROBIOLOGY

KEGG orthology-based annotation of the predicted proteome of Acropora digitifera: ZoophyteBase - an open access and searchable database of a coral genome

(2013) Walter C Dunlap et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Comparative metagenomics: natural populations of induced prophages demonstrate highly unique, lower diversity viral sequences

(2013) Lauren D. McDaniel et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Chronic nutrient enrichment increases prevalence and severity of coral disease and bleaching

(2013) Rebecca L. Vega Thurber et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A bacterial pathogen uses dimethylsulfoniopropionate as a cue to target heat-stressed corals

(2013) Melissa Garren et al.   ISME Journal

Coral and macroalgal exudates vary in neutral sugar composition and differentially enrich reef bacterioplankton lineages

(2013) Craig E Nelson et al.   ISME Journal

Global morphological analysis of marine viruses shows minimal regional variation and dominance of non-tailed viruses

(2013) Jennifer R Brum et al.   ISME Journal

Potential role of viruses in white plague coral disease

(2013) Nitzan Soffer et al.   ISME Journal

Exploring nucleo-cytoplasmic large DNA viruses in Tara Oceans microbial metagenomes

(2013) Pascal Hingamp et al.   ISME Journal

Previously unknown and highly divergent ssDNA viruses populate the oceans

(2013) Jessica M Labonté et al.   ISME Journal

Coupled changes in oxygen concentration and pH caused by metabolism of benthic coral reef organisms

(2013) Jennifer E. Smith et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Abundant SAR11 viruses in the ocean

(2013) Yanlin Zhao et al.   NATURE

DMSP biosynthesis by an animal and its role in coral thermal stress response

(2013) Jean-Baptiste Raina et al.   NATURE

Sources of Organic Carbon to Coral Reef Flats

(2013) Alice Alldredge et al.   OCEANOGRAPHY

The Pacific Ocean Virome (POV): A Marine Viral Metagenomic Dataset and Associated Protein Clusters for Quantitative Viral Ecology

(2013) Bonnie L. Hurwitz et al.   PLoS One

Bacteriophage adhering to mucus provide a non-host-derived immunity

(2013) J. J. Barr et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Coral-associated micro-organisms and their roles in promoting coral health and thwarting diseases

(2013) C. J. Krediet et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Influence of coral and algal exudates on microbially mediated reef metabolism

(2013) Andreas F. Haas et al.   PeerJ

Enumerating Viruses in Coral Mucus

(2012) Amandine Leruste et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Regional Variation in Lytic and Lysogenic Viral Infection in the Southern Ocean and Its Contribution to Biogeochemical Cycling

(2012) Claire Evans et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Virus-driven nitrogen cycling enhances phytoplankton growth

(2012) EJ Shelford et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Unique nucleocytoplasmic dsDNA and +ssRNA viruses are associated with the dinoflagellate endosymbionts of corals

(2012) Adrienne M S Correa et al.   ISME Journal

Observation of virus-like particles in thin sections of the bleaching scleractinian coral Acropora cytherea

(2012) Yvan Bettarel et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Uncoupled viral and bacterial distributions in coral reef waters of Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia)

(2012) Marc Bouvy et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

A Profile of an Endosymbiont-enriched Fraction of the CoralStylophora pistillataReveals Proteins Relevant to Microbial-Host Interactions

(2012) Andrew J. Weston et al.   MOLECULAR & CELLULAR PROTEOMICS

Microbial interactions: from networks to models

(2012) Karoline Faust et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Assessing Coral Reefs on a Pacific-Wide Scale Using the Microbialization Score

(2012) Tracey McDole et al.   PLoS One

Macroalgae Decrease Growth and Alter Microbial Community Structure of the Reef-Building Coral, Porites astreoides

(2012) Rebecca Vega Thurber et al.   PLoS One

Unseen players shape benthic competition on coral reefs

(2012) Katie L. Barott et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Phage therapy treatment of the coral pathogenVibrio coralliilyticus

(2012) Yossi Cohen et al.   MicrobiologyOpen

Marine Viruses: Truth or Dare

(2011) Mya Breitbart   Annual Review of Marine Science

Regional-scale nitrogen and phosphorus budgets for the northern (14°S) and central (17°S) Great Barrier Reef shelf ecosystem

(2011) M. Furnas et al.   CONTINENTAL SHELF RESEARCH

New directions in coral reef microbial ecology

(2011) Melissa Garren et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

An all-taxon microbial inventory of the Moorea coral reef ecosystem

(2011) Elizabeth A McCliment et al.   ISME Journal

Synechococcus growth in the ocean may depend on the lysis of heterotrophic bacteria

(2011) M. G. Weinbauer et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Enhanced viral production and infection of bacterioplankton during an iron-induced phytoplankton bloom in the Southern Ocean

(2011) Markus G. Weinbauer et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Effects of Coral Reef Benthic Primary Producers on Dissolved Organic Carbon and Microbial Activity

(2011) Andreas F. Haas et al.   PLoS One

Repeating patterns of virioplankton production within an estuarine ecosystem

(2011) D. M. Winget et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phage auxiliary metabolic genes and the redirection of cyanobacterial host carbon metabolism

(2011) L. R. Thompson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Metagenomic analysis of the coral holobiont during a natural bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef

(2011) Raechel Littman et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Organic matter release by dominant hermatypic corals of the Northern Red Sea

(2010) M. S. Naumann et al.   CORAL REEFS

Viral and microbial community dynamics in four aquatic environments

(2010) Beltran Rodriguez-Brito et al.   ISME Journal

Trade-Offs between Competition and Defense Specialists among Unicellular Planktonic Organisms: the "Killing the Winner" Hypothesis Revisited

(2010) C. Winter et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

High Frequency of Horizontal Gene Transfer in the Oceans

(2010) L. D. McDaniel et al.   SCIENCE

Do the organic sulfur compounds DMSP and DMS drive coral microbial associations?

(2010) Jean-Baptiste Raina et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Nitrogen fixation and nitrogen transformations in marine symbioses

(2010) Cara L. Fiore et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Metagenomic analysis of stressed coral holobionts

(2009) Rebecca Vega Thurber et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Mimivirus and Mimiviridae: Giant viruses with an increasing number of potential hosts, including corals and sponges

(2009) Jean-Michel Claverie et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Microbial community structure and its functional implications

(2009) Jed A. Fuhrman   NATURE

Viruses manipulate the marine environment

(2009) Forest Rohwer et al.   NATURE

Prevalence of virus-like particles within a staghorn scleractinian coral (Acropora muricata) from the Great Barrier Reef

(2008) N. L. Patten et al.   CORAL REEFS

Phage Therapy of Coral White Plague Disease: Properties of Phage BA3

(2008) Rotem Efrony et al.   CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY

Viral communities associated with healthy and bleaching corals

(2008) Kristen L. Marhaver et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Detection of inteins among diverse DNA polymerase genes of uncultivated members of the Phycodnaviridae

(2008) Alexander I Culley et al.   ISME Journal

Prophages in marine bacteria: dangerous molecular time bombs or the key to survival in the seas?

(2008) John H Paul   ISME Journal

Differential gene expression during thermal stress and bleaching in the Caribbean coralMontastraea faveolata

(2008) M. K. DESALVO et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Microbial Ecology of Four Coral Atolls in the Northern Line Islands

(2008) Elizabeth A. Dinsdale et al.   PLoS One

The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Metagenomic Characterization of Viruses within Aquatic Microbial Samples

(2008) Shannon J. Williamson et al.   PLoS One

Metagenomic analysis indicates that stressors induce production of herpes-like viruses in the coral Porites compressa

(2008) R. L. Vega Thurber et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

One-Third of Reef-Building Corals Face Elevated Extinction Risk from Climate Change and Local Impacts

(2008) K. E. Carpenter et al.   SCIENCE